FAIRMONT \u2014 The Fairmont girls tennis team earned a 5-1 win over Red Springs in the first round of the 4A dual-team state playoffs Monday.<\/p>\n
Fairmont, the No. 12 seed in the 4A East Region, advances to face No. 5 Ledford in the second round on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Fairmont won five of the six singles matches in Monday\u2019s matchup with the No. 21 Red Devils.<\/p>\n
Lilly Grainger won 4-6, 6-4 (10-6); Emma Jones won 6-2, 6-1; Lexi Stone won 6-2, 6-4; Gracie Freeman won 6-1, 6-1; Jocelyn Bryant won 4-6, 6-3 (10-7). Fairmont\u2019s Kenzi Blackwell lost 6-4, 6-6 (11-9).<\/p>\n
Lady Rams advance<\/p>\n
Purnell Swett also earned a first-round win in the 7A dual-team state playoffs on Monday as the No. 11 Rams defeated No. 22 Hopewell.<\/p>\n
The Rams, who are in the 7A West Region, will travel to No. 6 R.J. Reynolds for Wednesday\u2019s second round.<\/p>\n
Purnell Swett won four of the six matches in singles against Hopewell. Kyndallon Oxendine won 6-0, 6-0; Johnna Sampson won 6-3, 6-1; Berkley Collins won 6-2, 6-2; and Zoli Godwin won 6-0, 6-2. Rylee Chavis lost 6-1, 6-4; and Blair Brooks lost 6-4, 6-1.<\/p>\n
In doubles, Blakely Graham\/Oxendine won 8-0 and Chavis\/Brooks won 8-2. Godwin\/Sampson lost 8-3.<\/p>\n
Pirates head to second round <\/p>\n
No. 10 Lumberton was scheduled to host No. 23 Southeast Raleigh in the 7A East playoffs on Monday, but Southeast Raleigh forfeited the match.<\/p>\n
Lumberton advances to play at No. 7 Fuquay-Varina on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
St. Pauls falls at Seaforth<\/p>\n
The No. 23 St. Pauls girls tennis team lost 6-0 in Monday\u2019s first-round 5A dual-team state playoff match at No. 10 Seaforth.<\/p>\n
Seaforth advances to face No. 7 Fike on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FAIRMONT \u2014 The Fairmont girls tennis team earned a 5-1 win over Red Springs in the first round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-926925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}